Where are your abs at?

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so where are your abs hiding? are they still underneath that wiggly belly? lol. i've been asked so many times how i got the abs. there are even some who asks for my program so they'll follow it to get a flat belly. for all of you here who wants to know, the secret to a flat belly isn't crunches, sit-ups, curl-ups or whatever 'ups' you can come up with. it's about what you eat. your diet. those sit-ups can gain you some definition but in order for them to show, you first have to get rid of that fat in front of it and in order for them to go away, you need to do 'high intensity workouts'. you might have heard of this but let me explain what it is and what it does exactly. high intensity workouts, or let's just call it hiw, are workouts that gets your heart pumping to 80 percent of it's maximum heartbeat rate. it means you'll know when you're doing hiw when you're already gasping for air while running hard on a sunday morning. in a magazine i've read, it states that you can burn as much as 160 calories every 30 to 60 minutes of hiw. so how is it significant to me? well, an average person accumulates up to 2000 calories a day. it seems much already. so how is burning up 160 calories gonna help burn all that? your everyday activities lets you burn 60 percent of that 2000 which is equivalent to 1200 calories. add up 160 to 1200 and you'll get 1360 calories burned. you'll only have 640 calories to burn. ok, it isn't enough. or is it? high intensity workouts burn you that 160 when you are working out but after that, guess what? you'll still be burning calories cuz findings show that after a high intensity workout, your body will go into recovery mode where it recovers to pre-exercise state, the state where your body was in before you worked out and it also requires burning calories. this process takes up to 48 hours of calorie-burning frenzy. so even when you're sleeping you will still be burning calories. it's like saying goodbye slowly to that flabby, mushy, heavy belly you have. so how about that? when are you gonna stand up and burn those fat?